Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
Freeman Dyson
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.
Alan J. Perlis
Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
Alan J. Perlis
Web Development is a lot like kickboxing: You have to watch your cookies.
Anonymous
People who think, "Oh this is a one-off," need to be offed, or perhaps politely removed from the project.
George Neville-Neil
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
The goal is to deliver clean code that works - now.
Kent Beck
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
Eric Raymond
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
Like wine, the mastery of programming matures with time. But, unlike wine, it gets sweeter in the process.
Lawrence Mucheka